Black "Greeks"

When I (Justin) was in my freshman year at Morehouse, a family friend told the members of a certain frat at Morehouse that I was “interested” in joining their fraternity. While I was technically interested, I had never actually thought it likely I would pledge. This family friend was very high up in the fraternity [...]

Quote Of The Day: Plato

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

Supreme Beatdown

“The Supreme Court today delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Bush administration, ruling that the military tribunals it created to try terror suspects violate both American military law and the Geneva Convention.
In a 5-to-3 ruling, the justices also rejected an effort by Congress to strip the court of jurisdiction over [...]

The Greatest Joins The Obesity Battle

Muhammad Ali will introduce low-calorie foods and beverages for young adults and will market them using a new company called GOAT Food and Beverage. The snacks will be sold in convenience stores with names like Jab, Rumble, and Shuffle. They will be made of fruit laden rolls and finger foods shaped like boxing [...]

Summer Plans

I (Justin) am trying to figure out my summer plans. I’m going to take a quick trip to Atlanta in late July. (Maceo, get a couple of bottles of Jack.) The wifey, the Seed and I were supposed to go to Costa Rica in August, but unfortunately those plans have been scuttled. My Dad, my [...]

Hooters & The Sexual Revolution

Out here in Los Angeles, Hooters Restaurant canceled a planned bikini contest benefitting the City of LA’s animal spay-neuter program after womens’ groups protested.

“Some of L.A.’s most buxom babes will strut their stuff next month to benefit stray animals, but the city of Los Angeles said Tuesday it is pulling out of the controversial “Hooters [...]

Preachers Can’t Touch T.D.

I (Justin) normally don’t trust black (or white) pastors as far as I can throw ‘em. But one guy I really enjoy listening to is T.D. Jakes. Much more than the “pie in the sky,” “Jesus will fly down and save us” tripe we usually hear in black churches, Jakes challenges and inspires with aggressive, [...]

Kwame Kilpatrick vs. Ward Connerly

Last Thursday, Kwame Kilpatrick along with Operation King Dream filed suit to prevent a ballot initiative to ban the use of race and gender favored programs sponsored by the Darth Ward Connerly. Apparently, the supporters of the ballot initiative, called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, mislead many of the people who signed the petition [...]

Give Me Thickness (With The Quickness)

“A recent study published in the ‘Journal Of Black Studies’ reports that one size does not fit all when it comes to the size of beauty in the black community. In a 2004, report entitled “African American Men’s Perception of Body Figure Attractiveness” by Tammy T. Webb, E. Joan Looby, and Regina Fults-McMurtery, the researchers [...]

As I Listened to John Edwards Speak . . .

Yesterday, I attended a Legal Assistance Foundation of Greater Chicago luncheon in millennium Park. The keynote speaker was the ever-young looking John Edwards. He gave a mostly progressive speech that talked about the inequalities we have in America. More of a sequel rather than a rehash of his two America’s stump speech [...]